Sanjūrokkasen 三十六歌仙

Author/compiler: Unknown. Imprint: Edo, Sudō Gonbē, Genroku 9, 1696. Kanki on last folio verso reads: 元禄九丙子歳卯月吉祥日 ／ 江戸橋中通川瀬石町山口屋 ／ 須藤權兵衞開版. Description: 2 kan, 2 satsu, in a buckram chitsu case. 26.9 x 18.5 cm. Fukurotoji. Renewed (18th century ?) mid-blue covers, decorated with a painted design of trees and grasses in silver. No title slips. No naidai. Title from first line of preface. Edition: This is the only edition so far located, between the Saga-bon of Keichō period and the edition illustrated by Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章, published in 1789. Preface signed Tōsenshi 桃仙子. Contents: Selected poems and portraits of the Thirty-six Poets, beginning with Kakinomoto no Hitomaro 柿本人麻呂 and ending with Nakatsukasa 中務. Opposite each portrait and poem appears a brief biographical note on the poet, a comment on the poem and a scene from it.

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Purchased by the British Museum from E. W. Tuke in 1938.

Kenneth Gardner, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese books in the British Library printed before 1700 (London and Tenri, 1993). C. Japanese works 和書 7. Literature - poetry 国文-詩歌 b. Waka 和歌

Descriptive catalogue of Japanese and Chinese illustrated books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago , pp. 111-2.